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Boating on the Rhine |
looking at the classic train tunnels |
and the wineyards |
The Loreley |
her cliff |
and the Loreley Museum with Kaub's City tower and the Katz (cat) castle above |
Kaub and Gutenfels above it |
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Mainz tower in Kaub |
General Blücher's statue |
Kaub is where Blücher
crossed the Rhine with 50 000 soldiers, 15 000 horses and 182 canons in 1814, follwing Napoleon until he was defeated in Waterloo - in which defeat Blücher's troups played an important role. urther places on the Rhine on the next page |
The "thick tower" in Kaub |
Let's go back to the Nahe Idar-Oberstein The Felsenkirche |
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The main street of Oberstein and the old castle |
The new castle |
A fountain in the city |
Hinzert, the concentration camp where Luxembourgers were held | ||
Tnhe names of the victims |
The memorial with the cemetery behind |
The documentation centre in the background |
One of the most famous sights are the houses on the bridge |
Walk in Bad Kreuznach The bridge itself, with a figure of a local character, the Schampesklappergasser |
Further local figures on the Corn market |
Local market sellers |
A modern fountain where horses were drank before |
The Dibbemann, carryingf pottery, with a priest looking on from the "window" |
Buildings over the old city walls |
Probably maids of a local merchant called Milleman |
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The Holocaust memorial, St Paul's church in the background |
Also memory of a Jewish house |
The oldest church of the city, St Nicolas |
Ebernburg |
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facing Rheingrafenstein |
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Above the village
of Bad Münster |
Was a refuge for the reformators, the first non-catholic service (it is controversial whether it was indeed Lutheran) was held here in 1522 |
A memorial tells
the story of the castle |
Continued here |